If you have ever served as an executor of an estate, you know how hard it is to find and distribute all the assets. If the deceased was advanced in years, things can be increasingly difficult. Investments made forty years ago may be hard to track down. It may be difficult to find the original […]
On August 18, 2016 Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced that a record setting $155 million in unclaimed property had been returned to rightful owners during this past year, July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. This amount is the highest in the history of the I CASH program. More than 53,000 claims were fulfilled […]
What’s the worst roads? If you ask anyone who lives in Chicago, they will tell you Chicago streets are the worst because of the huge potholes that develop each Winter. The Chicago Department of Transportation patches potholes on 3,800 miles of city streets with December through April being the peak period. In 2016 the American […]
On August 1, 2016 Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that the Secretary of State’s office would resume mailing out reminders to those drivers whose license plate registration stickers are about to expire. The Secretary of State’s office had stopped sending out reminder notices in October of 2015 as a cost cutting measure during […]
So many times the news is filled with stories of murder, rape, theft, gang violence, and political corruption. It would be easy to think that all mankind is evil. Then a story appears that illustrates the inherent goodness of ordinary men who risk their lives to save others. Such a situation occurred on Tuesday, July […]